A good day out with mini buses to the remotest fells village pubs all putting on spcial sausages and guest beers. This weekend.
Nearest train station - Foxfield - over the road from first ... last ... and best pub!
does anyone have the dates for 2013?
Assuming you mean Bent & Bongs it's Thursday 31 Jan to Saturday 02 Feb.
Beerlist at
Not yet but I am going to POW on Wed so will find out for you.
What a stupid website ... it doesn't even say where the festival is....
and what on earth is the 'bent' part? And the bongs, for that matter! Is it a LGBT festival????
And what a silly assumption to make - how can that be the Broughton Beer and Bangers festival? Is is in the pubs in the remote fells and villages around a place called Broughton?
If you want to promote your own festival try doing it other ways, starting with using a separate thread to promote a website that actually says where it is!
The Bent and Bongs Beer Bash is held in a relatively small working persons club-style building in Atherton.
Bent and Bong are the old names for Atherton and Tyldesley, two pretty ancient colliery towns.
I used to make a point of visiting the Bash annually. About 4 years ago, after queuing around the side of the hall in the rain, wind, and cold, we became tired of watching the privileged arriving by taxi and being ushered straight in. After enquiring - at the risk of losing our place in the queue, we learned that the queue was waiting for people to leave before any more could be admitted, whilst the taxi-driven were there using corporate tickets.
Anger was slightly tempered by the knowledge that the Bash raises a lot of money by having each of its barrels sponsored and that charity was rumoured to benefit, but not enough to keep us from leaving the soggy in the queue and nipping over the main road to the Pendle Witch for several of Moorhouses best.
.... and I've never queued for another Bash.
Does that mean you now sponsor a cask????
Interesting info. Thanks
It's the first weekend in October, and the hope is that it reverts to the previous kind of festival. There were always 100 real ales and great sausages anyway.
Didnt know it was that close to Whitehaven Beer fest.
If I can get another £10 ticket we might come up again.
I quite fancy a trip to Corkcikle it was good last year.
Be nice to see you!!
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